Josh Hoppes [josh.hop...@gmail.com] wrote: > Hello, I've got a few machines I'm setting up which I noticed ACPI0 is > generating a lot of constant interrupts which appears to be consuming > system time on CPU0 up to 80%. I think other interrupts are still > getting time to process, but I'm not sure if it could still cause a > performance impact as I'm looking to use these systems to handle > filtering and queuing on the edge of our network. Any ideas or > suggestions would be appreciated. >
For your interrupt storm, you might want to test the latest BIOS and/or the latest OpenBSD snapshot to see where things are at. For your system in general, you'll get the best performance by disabling hyper-threading, and if your CPU supports "turbo" mode, enable that.
